Not long before WVU was picked to finish eighth in the Big 12’s preseason poll, Alabama got decidedly different news. The Crimson Tide are expected to win the SEC thanks to a slew of preseason all-conference picks — I mean, a total only matched once in the past 22 years.

Oof.

So there are those two items and the news Wendell Smallwood is headed back to The First State, but the Mountaineers did get a healthy helping of really good, really needed news last night. Once and future wunderkind QB David Sills has committed to the class of 2015.

Take a commitment from a kid in the seventh grade, and everyone seems to expect a mix of Johnny United, Joe Montana, Brett Farve and John Elway.

Instead, David Sills is just David Sills, who happens to be a darn good high school quarterback. Scout.com rates him as the No. 35 quarterback in the 2015 class.

Think about that.

He’s No. 35, ahead of thousands of others and good enough to be the marquee quarterback recruit as a Big 12 school, and people are wondering what happened to him, and ask, “wasn’t he supposed to be good?”

The fact is, Sills is good. He’s 6-foot-4, 190 pounds, get rid of the ball quickly, has good arm strength, is smart, reads defenses well and, best of all, is incredibly humble and gracious.

Two immediate reactions:

1) Eastern Christian Academy!
2) What now, Chris Chugunov?